Some Oregon Residents Upset at Prospect of Pumping Their Own GasBuzz 60

Doug Baldwin playcallingBy Michael-Shawn Dugar, SeattlePI

Van Crashes Into Pedestrians Injuring SixAssociated Press

US military to accept transgender recruits after Trump drops appealEuronews

Snow on Christmas Eve, 2017Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Ice carving at WinterfestSeattle Post-Intelligencer

Amtrak derails near OlympiaGrant Hindsley / SeattlePI

Golden retriever meets Darth Vader and EwokSeattle Post-Intelligencer

According to police reports, the alleged victim told investigators she'd received a job offer from another teen over the Internet. The job was described as hotel hospitality work; the 18-year-old agreed to meet with the girl and two male friends.

Prosecutors contend Dalgardno and the others took the 18-year-old to Bellevue Square, where they bought her $500 worth of clothing and lingerie. They then went to the Bellevue Red Lion hotel, where the men told her she would be working as a prostitute.

When she said she wasn't interested in selling her body, the men told her she was now in debt to them, a Bellevue detective said in police reports.

"She was informed by the two men that she now owed them $500 for the clothes they bought her and she had to repay the money by working for them," the detective said. "They threatened to harm her family and threatened to break her fingers if she did not comply."

For the three days that followed, the young woman said she had sex with a number of men. All of the money they paid her was passed on to the males who'd threatened her, Dalgardno and the 17-year-old boy.

Police claim the Dalgardno and the others took sexually explicit photos of her, posting them on a prostitution-oriented website. The detective also said the woman claimed the Dalgardno raped her in the hotel bathroom.

The woman was released after she told her alleged captors her parents would likely report her missing if she didn't return home. Investigators later learned the 16-year-old girl alleged to have initially approached the young woman had been reported missing in December.

Working with Seattle police vice detectives, Bellevue investigators conducted a sting operation at a Bothell Country Inn Suites hotel where they arrested the 17-year-old and the missing girl.

A search of the girl's text messages showed she had been making $500 to $600 a day while working as a prostitute. Police claim sexually explicit photos of the 16-year-old were found on Dalgardno's cellular phone.

Investigators also claim the man distributed those photos -- child pornography -- through the prostitution website.

Arrested by Bellevue detectives, Dalgardno denied raping the young woman or forcing her to work as a prostitute, according to court documents. He allegedly claimed he only checked the others into hotel rooms because they weren't old enough to do so on their own.

"He said (she) never made any money because she owed 'them' for food, rent and the clothes they bought for her so she could be involved in the escort business," the Bellevue detective said.

According to court filings, Dalgardno was convicted of rape and child molestation as a juvenile. He admitted to repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and an 11-year-old with whom he was acquainted; he is a registered sex offender.

Seattlepi.com does not generally name juvenile suspects unless they are charged as adults.

Booked into King County Jail on suspicion of promoting prostitution and dealing child pornography, Dalgardno remains jailed on $250,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 10.

Both juvenile defendants were arraigned Tuesday morning in King County Juvenile Court. Both have pleaded not guilty